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Strategic Cities Development Programme

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Kandy Multimodal Transit Terminal (KMTT) is to provide a facility to eliminate the spatial scatterings of the three existing

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The Strategic Cities Development Programme is an Government Initiative under the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing with Sri Lanka’s urban vision to develop the secondary cities as a system of competitive, environmentally sustainable and well -linked cities in a bid to foster economic growth and prosperity. In each city region the project will targeted two broad categories of strategic investments such as Integrated urban services improvement and public urban space enhancements which enhancing the functional aspects of the city as well as the attractiveness and livability of the city.

The Strategic Cities Development Project (SCDP) aims to improve selected urban services and public urban spaces in the participating City Regions of Sri Lanka.

The world bank embarks on the first phase of this Programme..>>>.

The Anuradhapura Integrated Urban Development Project (AIUDP) had been implemented under the Strategic Cities Development Programme as one of the integrated urban development projects

which would be implemented with a Credit Facility from the French..>>>.

The Government of Sri Lanka is negotiating a project loan with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financing the proposed Sustainable Urban Development Project (SUDP)

Works for development of economic corridors and important cities..>>>.

LAND ACQUISITION

THE PROGRESS OF LAND ACQUISITION PROCESS

The Strategic Development Program implemented under the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing has commenced its development works in the following cities, Kandy, Galle, Jaffna and Anuradhapura. Under the Kandy City Development Project, Land Acquisition works have been completed for the development of the Katugasthota Madawala Digana road. Rs. 314.425 million has been paid as compensation and allowances for 991 plots of land under the LARC and the Super LARC methods. , The acquisition of these lands have been conducted by the Divisional Secretariats of Pathadumbara, Kundasale and Gangavatakoralaya as per the Land Acquisition Act No9 of 1950

SOCIAL SAFEGUARD

SOCIAL SAFEGUARD REPORT

The majority of project interventions are expected to create significant social impacts by improving the urban environment and livability of the targeted city regions. However, long term adverse impacts are likely due to land acquisition and resettlement in a few sub-projects involving certain new constructions for urban upgrading and road expansion. No indigenous communities are present in the project affected areas, as clarified by Social Assessment (SA) carried out.

ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARD

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESMENT REPORT

As per the requirements of both state regulations and the World Bank’s Environmental Safeguard Policies the SCDP made several initiatives to enhance the quality of environment in several ways. Compensatory mechanism is applied to ensure the re-establishments of the green cover which damaged or removed due to project interventions.